Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many House Democrats were outraged by the memo, which they regarded as authorizing a semipurge list. Several called the White House to complain. "We are keeping score," admitted a presidential aide. "We are looking at people who help us that we can help. But it doesn't mean we aren't helping others." The aide said the memo was "not accurate"−and even if it had been, "it was dumb to write it down." Declared Pinson, after the memo was obtained by TIME: "It is out of date. We have re-evaluated our plans...
...failing to set priorities among its various missions. The Navy's $41 billion slice of next year's proposed $126 billion defense budget is the largest allotted any individual military service and is an increase over this year's $39.5 billion. The admirals, however, are not satisfied. They correctly complain that inflation will turn this modest increase into an actual reduction. But what distresses them most is that shipbuilding funds, which they consider the backbone of the service, have been dramatically slashed, from $5.8 billion this fiscal year to $4.7 billion next. This will permit the construction of only...
...frequently said that students' tuition fees do not cover the price of a Harvard education, and that therefore students shouldn't complain about having to pay $4000 or $5000 per year. But this argument ignores the fact that the Harvard Corporation could use more of its enormous endowment to offset the costs of students' educations, thus lowering tuition fees. Why is it necessary to invest so much money in stocks, instead of paying for education? A university, being a non-profit organization, should be more concerned with providing quality service to its students, than with earning dividends...
Undergraduates hunched over their trays in a River House dining hall complain that senior faculty members take little interest in teaching, leaving such drudgery to poorly prepared grad students...
...complain about troublesome dealings with lawyers, but how many of us would prefer to go through the simple process of Red Brigades' kangaroo courts, imposing "proletarian justice" as in the case of Aldo Moro and others...